Job Openings in U.S. Rose in October to Four-Month High

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2. The article you link to illustrates Disraeli's observation that there are "lies,

damned lies and statistics."

First of all, the article nowhere references this supposed Labor Department report. Instead, its hyperlinks link back to it or to Bloomberg and frequently produce '404 File not Found' error messages.

So there is no practical way to evaluate the accuracy of the reporter's version of the truth.

Instead, here is what I found at the BLS website just now:

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

December 11, 2012

There were 3.7 million job openings on the last business day of October, little changed from September. The hires rate (3.2 percent) and the separations rate (3.1 percent) were also little changed in October. More...

http://www.bls.gov/jlt/

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"Little changed" is what I read in the BLS news release, but maybe I'm just being too logo-centric.